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Welcome everyone, I hope to inspire you and share some of my papercraft work. You can find out where I teach and what I am up to, what inspires me and what I am working on next. I love to share new ideas and neat ways of adding creativity to your pages or cards etc

Saturday, August 24, 2013

For those of you who wanted to give this project a try, here are my roughly made up templates. What I do to make a template is just work out my basic shape, ie the rectangle, then add two ruler widths to the sides.

Then work out a good place to position tabs and go from there. I like to have a folded side, so the edge of you box is not a raw cut edge, but a folded edge.

This stops tearing and sagging. Just copy templates and print out A4 size ( or increase in size until shape fits comfortably on an A4 sheet)

Friday, August 23, 2013

Sharing a layout made with Kaszazz products today. I love using cogs and sprockets for boys, and one of my favourite ways is to adhere loads of them to cardstock and then paint with gesso. The gesso will absorb the Dylusions at a different rate than the cardstock and will give a wonderful variation in colours.

Use dylusions and sprays to colour the gesso, and finally swipe with ink or paint to highlight areas.

Simple spiky flowers, these are great for boy pages as they are not soft and feminine, they kind of look like a rosette. Because they are simple they fit on Mixed media boy style layouts.

Use brick template and swipe the page with gesso first, then adhere sprockets and cogs cut from lightweight chipboard. Old cereal boxes will do. The randomly paint with gesso and spray the colours you desire.

Friday, August 16, 2013

Today I will share my latest layout for Couture Creations. To create the mixed media background, I have embossed 3 panels of white cardstock. Then trimmed them to fit my 12 x 12 panel. Adhere to the blue cardstock background and roughly brush over with gesso, and crackle medium. Once dry, spray with glimmermists randomly.

To cover the Tattered Lace panels, spray with spray adhesive, and then coat with brown glitter. Allow to dry and attach to layout, then place photos over the top.

I have cut out the Bird house in cardstock and embossed with Gold embossing powder for shine.

I have added lots of fibre and beaded trim, if your trim is not the right colour, spray with Glimmer mist to match the layout background.

Couture Creations Materials

Embossing Folders Super Fancy That, Courtship, Celebrate.

Couture Creations Endless Dreams Viva Birdcage

Couture Creations Fantasia Doily dies Tattered Lace

Other Materials

Gesso

Tim Holtz Crackle medium

Imaginarium Designs Alpha chipboard

Marmalade & Turquoise Glimmer Mist

metal trinkets

Flowers

fibres and beaded trim

Pearl strip

Brown Glitter

Masking tape

Graphic 45 a place in time paper

Gold embossing powder

Thanks for joining me and I hope you are inspired to try the mixed media background.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Recently I was asked to do a little work using Kaszazz products. With a new catalogue out now you are sure to find some awesome products in their range. This layout uses some of the new chip titles and the Botanicals range of papers. For products see the Kaszazz site

Saturday, August 3, 2013

I found this letter stack at Kmart and decided it was just right for altering. To start with I have applied a layer of crackle medium, which I have then sprayed with Glimmer mists to colour up. The item was white to begin with so that was a bonus

For the Precious Moments, I have applied Dimensional Magic and glitter, as usual, but the brown colour of this is amazing. We dont use brown as a glitter enough I think!

I have sprayed the butterflies with spray Gesso and a little glitter for sparkle.

Imaginarium Chipboard

Other Materials

White & Brown Glitter

White Gesso

Spray gesso

Crackle medium

Prima vine

Pearl strips

ZVA rhinestone flourishes
Party pink and coffee shop glimmer mist

trinkets

Natural Beauty Layout

One of my favourite photos of my daughter I took when she was 6 at my father's Farm. She is tucked down in the grass just like a little bird.

When I saw the new Barley chip, I just had to use them with this photo.

To alter the feather, I have inked it brown and overlayed brown Liquid pearls along the top. This gives it a really great dimension and sheen. So I tried liquid pearls on the thistle and Barley too. Liquid pearls come in so many colours you can usually find one to suit.

While the liquid pearls are wet you can sprinkle with micro beads and glitter for added dimension too. Then I have swiped gesso over the Micro beads to add more texture

Brisbane Expo

About Me

Paper Artist, I have been an artist of some sort or another all my life, with formal training at Art College. Cardmaking, scrapbooking and papercraft have now become my format for atistic expression for almost 20 years now.